Wikileaks and Sunken Treasure
MrEureka
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TAMPA, FL (AP).- Deep-sea explorers in Florida are using some of the trove of recently leased WikiLeaks documents to try to force the U.S. government out of their legal battle with Spain over a shipwreck treasure.
Odyssey Marine Exploration of Tampa says documents released by Wikileaks show the U.S. State Department had offered to help Spain's side in the matter in exchange for help in returning a multimillion-dollar painting seized by World War II-era Nazis to a U.S. citizen.
Odyssey said Wednesday it filed a motion urging an appeals court to throw out a "friend of the court" brief by the U.S. government supporting Spain's bid for 17 tons of coins raised from a sunken Spanish galleon off Portugal in 2007.
A federal court ruled for Spain in 2009. Odyssey is appealing.
The State Department had no immediate comment when contacted Wednesday by The Associated Press.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
Odyssey Marine Exploration of Tampa says documents released by Wikileaks show the U.S. State Department had offered to help Spain's side in the matter in exchange for help in returning a multimillion-dollar painting seized by World War II-era Nazis to a U.S. citizen.
Odyssey said Wednesday it filed a motion urging an appeals court to throw out a "friend of the court" brief by the U.S. government supporting Spain's bid for 17 tons of coins raised from a sunken Spanish galleon off Portugal in 2007.
A federal court ruled for Spain in 2009. Odyssey is appealing.
The State Department had no immediate comment when contacted Wednesday by The Associated Press.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
Andy Lustig
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<< <i>I'm all about the wikileaks. Free Julian Assange! >>
Really and put more innocent GI's in danger. Secrets were made for a reason, most people don't really need to know the truth.
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<< <i>I find it hard to believe that the U.S. State Department would act on behalf of Joe SixPack to recover a piece of art just because he is a U.S. citizen. Maybe Joe SixPack has pulled a few political puppet strings or thrown some heavy coin around in D.C. ???? >>
I agree with you. It would be my guess that Joe Sixpack was a J.P. Morgan, Rockefeller or Warren Buffett type whom invested a lot of money in the country and created a lot of money for the country. No way they would have done that for you or I.
Andy thanks for sharing this, very interesting information coming from wikileaks.
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<< <i>I'm all about giving our enemies the upper hand in order to sell copies of the Guardian. Hang Julian Assange! >>
Fixed that for ya
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